How to Grow Wheatgrass (in Less Than Two Minutes)

[shadowace421]

But cant natural wheat grass be contaminated with stuff? i mean animals go to the bathroom in grass, not to mention possible parasites in the soil. Id prefer to know where my wheat grass has been.

[PinesWheatGrass]

@shadowace421 Almost all food is grown outdoors: fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, nuts, etc. It's what you can't see that you need to worry about. Because of crowded & humid conditions, indoor wheatgrass contains mold and as much as 500 times more bacteria (even the deadly kind) than real wheatgrass, which is grown in bright sunlight & freezing temperatures. Every batch of Pines Wheatgrass is tested. Indoor wheatgrass is NEVER tested. Bacteria & mold in indoor grass makes some ppl feel sick.

[shadowace421]

@PinesWheatGrass i doubt mold could grow on the blades of grass themselves much less with the absence of dirt. But you do make a good point about outdoor wheat being much cleaner than i thought it would be.

[PinesWheatGrass]

@shadowace421 It is well known that mold is a major problem. Please do a Google search. When wheatgrass is grown unnaturally, 7 times too fast with seeds 300 times too close & in warm moist conditions, mold will grow. Those are terrible conditions for growing wheatgrass but perfect for growing mold. Products & ideas to prevent mold do not work. Mold spores are everywhere & are just looking for the right conditions for growth. Wheatgrass grown naturally outdoors through the winter never has mold.

[thallious9876]

so what can we do??

[PinesWheatGrass]

@thallious9876 You can use the wheatgrass Dr. Schnabel & other scientists developed. Pines is the only company that still produces wheatgrass grown, harvested & packaged in the way they recommended. One 7 tablet serving or a teaspoon of powder provides more chlorophyll & other green food nutrients than four shots of tray grown wheatgrass but without the mold or high bacteria level associated with growing it unnaturally indoors. With Pines you can have wheatgrass year round in a convenient form.

[keptyeti]

Can you just eat grass from the yard? If so please explain.

[PinesWheatGrass]

@keptyeti Yard grass is a perennial grass. It stores the nutrients it needs for reproduction in the roots. It is fibrous, contains limited juice and is not good tasting. Wheatgrass & the grasses of other cereal grains such as barley, oats and rye are annual grasses. They grow slowly in cold weather with freezing temperatures at night. That induces the plant to build extremely high levels of nutrition in the leaves. As a result it is sweet, juicy & very nutritious if grown naturally outdoors.

[popoymotmot]

If i re-harvest wheatgrass over and over again, will i be able to juice the same amount and the same number of nutrients as with the 1st harvest?

[PinesWheatGrass]

@popoymotmot Quality wheatgrass is harvested only once. After the jointing stage when we harvest, the wheat plant goes on to make the grain. If grown naturally outdoors in wheat-growing regions, the wheat plant grows very quickly after the wheatgrass harvest. Within a few weeks, it is a long stalk with a head of grain at the top. High nutritional levels in wheatgrass last only a few days once a year. That's when we harvest, dry it, put it in oxygen-free bottles that you can use all year.

[AlitheaNara]

Once packaged isn't looses nutritional value?

[PinesWheatGrass]

@AlitheaNara That was one of the concerns of Dr. Schnabel & the other scientists in 1935. They developed a method of putting the product in amber glass bottles where the air was removed & replaced with an oxygen-free environment. They did long term tests & found there was no significant loss in nutritional value even after ten years. Pines Wheat Grass is packaged in the same way as recommended by Dr. Schnabel; however, "copycat products" are now packaged in plastic & do quickly lose nutrition.

[PinesWheatGrass]

@greens555 I first met Ann Wigmore in 1982 & follow her teachings. Yet, the fact is tray-grown is not as nutritious. She even used research on our wholefood wheatgrass in her books. No one is saying she didn't help people, but she did use research on one thing to support another. Fiber is important. Cellulose in wheatgrass is the same as in all other vegetables. Juice is quickly absorbed & is helpful for sick people, but a wholefood is more thoroughly absorbed & should be a dietary staple.

[NuclearNympho]

I looovvveeeeeee Wheatgrass!...yummy!!

[fetymann]

Nice... but for having fresh juice everyday, who wants to wait 200 days? ;)

[PinesWheatGrass]

@fetymann Why limit yourself? Pines is also available all year long as a dehydrated, economical & convenient wholefood grown as nature intended. Except for mold & potential pathogens from unnatural conditions, tray-grown juice can be good. But even if it were mold-free, a diet without vegetable fiber is not good. The colon needs lots of chlorophyll and fiber from dark green veggies. Pines expands 12 times its size & provides chlorophyll-rich roughage that offsets the lack of fiber in juice.